Entertainment: October 2010

via cuteoverload.com Thought I'd spread a little puggish holiday cuteness and use this opportunity to tell readers (and editors and colleagues!) just how much I love you guys, and how very deeply honored I feel that I get to...Read More

Happy Power Bottom Appreciation Day Projectors! On this day we honor those brave men who are willing to straddle adversity and take one for the team. In related news, be sure to vote on Tuesday!...Read More

James Spada is a prolific author, photographer and publisher whose career has taken some amazing turns over the past thirty-five years. In 1979, after writing about Barbara Streisand (1974) and Robert Redford (1977), Spada published The Spada Report, the Newest...Read More

Tori Fixx has been a mainstay on the queer hip hop scene for over a decade. He's released seven studio albums and toured the country in 2006 with the HomoRevolution Tour. Here's the video for "Not Perfect" from his album...Read More

I probably would have just put up an open thread on the Rocky Horror episode of Glee last night, which Jerame recorded for me, with a couple of lines if it weren't for the fact that Ryan Murphy, the creator...Read More

Amazing private photos (from an estate listed on eBay) of a gay/drag costume part in 1962! In those days, prints were dated when they were developed (not shot), so this was probably a Halloween hoe-down. And what a night it...Read More

While there have been a couple of critiques of the It Gets Better videos on Bilerico Project, I've been amazed at how quickly some readers and other sites got all worked up when someone suggests that the messaging could have...Read More

I keep finding strange private shots of men dancing, which is lovely. What would be even lovelier if is if I had a clue about what's going on. Unfortunately, about 90% of the stuff I post on Bilerico comes out...Read More

There's a brilliant new gay-themed film from an unlikely source. Peruvian and Native American film director Peter Bratt and his hunky actor brother from TV's Law & Order, Benjamin Bratt, bring to life a complex relationship between a hyper-masculine Latino/Indigenous...Read More

Comment Questions of the Day: 1. Do you think the Glee photos are too racy? Discuss! I'm curious since we love Glee! 2. Tell me how much you love to Whip Your Hair? Amazing or is she too young...Read More

Possibly a little hardcore for the gentle Projectors, but so unusual I thought it had to be shared. Photo is from ca. 1930s, and part of a series of 1920s-1930s amateur porn photos I recently located, showing playful, frisky, happy...Read More

Gioia Bruno, one-third of the Italian 80's girl group Exposé, went into solo dance music after her success with the pop band, sang with the rock band Wet, and opened a performing arts academy. She also came out of the...Read More

As a college professor, I am contractually obligated to bemoan the state of our educational system today, but this one takes the cake. When United States Senate candidates don't know what the First Amendment says, we really need to think...Read More

As always with vintage/antique photos, impossible to know whether people are what they seem to a contemporary eye. They could be a trans/lesbian couple; or they could be sisters or friends who performed manual labor. Either way, I think they...Read More

Bo Burnham has been a staple on Bilerico for years. We've posted clips and ditties from the young comedian's songs several times. Now Bo has his own Comedy Central 1 hour special and two LPs on Comedy Central's record label....Read More

When I was nineteen years old, I vacationed to Los Angeles with my boyfriend and won a car on "The Price is Right." It was a long time ago. Thirty years. I have a videotape of the entire episode and...Read More

The soundtrack for the Rocky Horror Show episode of Glee is out, and they changed a few of the lyrics to clean them up for prime time. Fortunately for them, they didn't attempt the dirtiest songs in the play and...Read More

This is a great fucking video. It really fucking just puts it all out there in a simple fucking way that any fuckwad can fucking understand. If you're at your fucking job and they get fucking testy about foul language,...Read More

Mattilda: You recently edited Kicked Out, an anthology of stories by current and formerly homeless queer youth (including yourself) -- one of the dominant themes in the book involves the chosen families that youth create in order to challenge, undo,...Read More

Teen pop star Justin Bieber was on the receiving end of some anti-gay bullying over the weekend. While playing laser tag in a Canadian arcade, Bieber was repeatedly "shot" by a twelve year old kid who kept calling the singer...Read More

Even though he's (probably) straight, UK music superstar Robbie Williams loves to mess around with the media when it comes to his sexuality. He says suggestive, gay-ish things in print and in song, part of an elaborate public ruse--to what...Read More

I have long loved the works of Kazuo Ishiguro, the British author with the Japanese name, ever since I read "Remains of the Day" in the 90's. And, despite the fact that most movies based on books I love often...Read More

After posting about Glee's de-transed version of the Rocky Horror Show yesterday, I thought I'd look up Richard O'Brien, who played Riff Raff and wrote the musical, and see if he identified as L, G, B, T, or Q. I...Read More

Do you ever get frustrated with the seeming lack of planning around LGBT issues? Tired of the gay agenda looking more like a kindergarten drawing than a roadmap for success? Weary of trying to decipher what the hell is really...Read More

I have no idea what's going on here. Could be a costume party but judging by some of the chaps in the back row, it certainly seems like they feel altogether at home in their garb. Not sure why the...Read More

Update: Rory in the comments accuses me of "burying the lead," and point well taken. Glee's Frank N. Further will be played by a woman, making the "cross-dressing" just "dressing" and the homosexual pining becomes heterosexual pining. I'm not the...Read More

Didn't quite know how to write a title for this delicious morsel of torrid bisexuality, transgenderism and all-around sluttiness, but wow, I love it. The redhead on the bed looks like Julia Roberts to me... but on Ecstasy. Book cover...Read More

The New York Times reported on a lawsuit by a transgender woman, Lana Lawless, against the Ladies Professional Golf Association, which banned her from participating in the sport after she won the women's world championship in long-drive golf. This move...Read More

Just when you think that Wal-Mart couldn't possibly go any lower, the company stoops to even new depths. Several stores are now carrying Chased by an Elephant, the Gospel Truth about Today's Stampeding Sexuality, a book by Janice Barrett Graham,...Read More

Just too cute not to share this late 19th/very early 20th postcard. Of course, queer had a very different connotation back then, but, gee, I kind of wish I could get this in a bumper sticker....Read More

Okay, remember when McDonald's put out a gay themed commercial in France and a high level American McDonald's executive said he was a Christian and wouldn't allow an ad like that to air here? Apparently someone thought the fast food...Read More

Picture it. If the religious right were going to make a horror flick what would their monster be? You know, zombies, vampires and werewolves are so overexposed if this movie is going to stand a chance it'll need a more...Read More

Comment Questions of the Day: 1. What do you think of Miley's video? Too skanky or just skanky enough? 2. What would you rather be? BONUS: Physical compliments are nice for Buck- new tie and all!...Read More

My best friend is spending the holiday weekend with us but right before I moved out of Indianapolis he made me a mixtape to take to DC with me. I thought that since it'd been a while since I've done...Read More

ABC is considering making a movie about Constance McMillen: ABC Family is developing a TV movie about the lesbian teenager who made national news after her high school banned her from the prom, network reps say.[...] Craig Zadan and Neil...Read More

Are they trapped behind chicken-wire? Is the guy on the right a robot? How does realism trap a person? Is this a psychological drama or a story about sex in an alley? What? Huh? "Anonymous" has a lot of explaining...Read More

Are they trapped behind chicken-wire? Is the guy on the right a robot? How does realism trap a person? Is this a psychological drama or a story about sex in an alley? What? Huh? "Anonymous" has a lot of explaining...Read More

Are they trapped behind chicken-wire? Is the guy on the right a robot? How does realism trap a person? Is this a psychological drama or a story about sex in an alley? What? Huh? "Anonymous" has a lot of explaining...Read More

We got such a good response from y'all on our last video, we've made the decision to transition to a video podcast. We hope y'all like the new format and bear with us as we experiment with a new medium....Read More

Birimisa: Portraits, Plays, Perversions: The Work of George Birimisa, edited by Lanny Baugniet and Paul Sagan (Sweetheart Press, 2009). Our annual history month always brings out the faction that believes our real history started in 1969 with Stonewall -- that...Read More

I've been so busy today running around town with all my anniversary machinations that I forgot to write my 5pm post! (I had to go get a haircut so I look good for tonight's romantic dinner and I surprised Jerame...Read More

I had to laugh when I heard one of the judges say that "Dancing With the Stars has gone gay!" after Margaret Cho's well-intentioned but badly-executed samba in a rainbow dress to show support for LGBT bullied teens. Gone? I...Read More

I used to love watching Disney's Donald Duck cartoons (my favorite is still the one where they explain how to shoot pool using math), but this takes it to a whole new level. Combine everyone's favorite raucous duck with America's...Read More

Saturday Night Live's recent show featured a sketch about a small fifth grade effeminate boy who dreams of being a mural artist that's bullied by the other kids at school; his father decides to show the kid how to defend...Read More

I love tats. Have a few myself. But is there no decency left in this world? This is from a rogue's gallery of ridiculous belly tats and, actually, this one is artistic, albeit questionably positioned. Click over and groan at...Read More

I love tats. Have a few myself. But is there no decency left in this world? This is from a rogue's gallery of ridiculous belly tats and, actually, this one is artistic, albeit questionably positioned. Click over and groan at...Read More

It's no secret the written word's in danger. With newspapers, magazines and other printed matter falling victim to the ongoing digital revolution, it wouldn't be completely irrational to imagine a future in which the alphabet's been reduced to pixels and...Read More

A marketing rep sent me this video from McKendree, which he says was recorded on Church Street in Nashville. He recorded a "continuation" to Dolly Parton's "Jolene" and I can't stop laughing (although I don't know if it's for the...Read More

While I've seen several back and forth conversations on whether or not 50 Cent was gay bashing in a tweet he sent yesterday, I think we can all agree that either way it was in bad taste. While many in...Read More

My first boyhood crush was on a dead man. He was a zombie named Quentin Collins, with eyes that pierced my gay soul and sideburns the size of the Florida peninsula. He stalked across my TV screen on weekday afternoons...Read More